Agathe Dorra is a PhD researcher in political aesthetics at King’s College London
The rapid integration of formerly obscure, wonkish outsiders into the media spotlight elite is easy to understand. Technocratic analysis and blogging that divorces policy from politics dovetail neatly with the noble-sounding notions of objectivity long dominant in American journalism.
Imagining radical change in Palestine.
Read the CliffsNotes, impress your fancy friends.
A reply to Seth Ackerman’s “The Red and the Black.”
The cold calculus of fantasy football leaves little room for the sentimentalism at the heart of fandom.
The Outsourced Self reviewed.
If Django Unchained wants to capture the raw terror of slavery, why does it shy away from historical examples of black agency?
Gay Inc. against Bradley Manning.
Our big plans for 2013 and how you can help.
How Chicago teachers took on neoliberal education reform.
Why the politics of national security means that we’re all living in failed Hobbesian states.
There’s a reason designers describe their field in abstract terms.
Debtors of the world, unite?
Why socialist realism loses out to avant-garde aesthetics.
